Post 5: My future job

Hello, today I'm gonna tell you about my "dream job"

When I was a child I dreamed to be an artist and dedicate to illustrate children's stories, like fairytales!  And now I'm studying Visual Arts but I'm not specializing in drawing, illustration or painting, moreover just this year I started to work harder on my drawing.
However following that line  I'd like to work building toys, speciffically miniature scenarios made with wood or paper , like very small rooms or even houses, with tiny furniture, I think I could create scenarios from fairytales like the gingerbread house where lives the witch from Hansel & Gretel !

It would be an indoor job, but I'd like to work in a big workshop with huge windows so the sun could enter and thus not use artificial light during day, and also the air would be renewed, which is important when working with painting. I can imagine it with walls painted in pastel colors like baby blue and a lot of plants!

I think it could be uncomfortable to travel with all the materials and tools (although it's something I usually do), but I think It could be intersting and fun to do it, visit different places and perhaps make miniatures of those places where I'll stay!

About the salary, that type of work is expensive, specially due to the time invested on it, so I think if worked freelance I would sell it expensive in order to the complexity of the pieces. I really don't know if I could work on something like this on a companny or Toy store, but if it was the case I wouldn't accept a low salary... although I know it's so difficult to find a job like that 😓

I'm thinking of taking the speciallization on Photography ! Maybe it could sound like it don't have a lot in common with what I'm writing about but this year I started to experiment scale change photographs with little spaces that I have built, mini rooms with old toys that I have kept since my childhood that appear to be life-size! I'll post a couple of thos photos!

Thanks for reading <3

Post 4: A photograph I like

Hello, how are you?

It was a little difficult to decide what photography to post but finally choose this one: 

I took it in my lasts vacations, back in January 2020. I was at the beach in Navidad with my mother, grandmother and little sisters.

The picture shows a view from the beach, it appears random people that was in there, the guardhouse of the lifeguard, and focuss mostly in the lines that causes the wind in the sand that in the sea. 

I find so beautiful those lines, they made me think it was like draws made by the wind or stretch marks.

I like a lot the colours in the photo, they are like grayish because although it was summer the days we stayed in there were cloudy.

I too like it because it reminds me of the pre-pandemic life. 2019 was a really hard year for me and my mental health, and I started to be more mental stable and relaxed at the end of that year. At the time I took this photo I was feeling better so it make me feels a little nostalgic and reminds me that life is so unpredictable but that everything goes and change. 

Writing this, looking at the picture and thinking about those days made me remember the lyrics from the song 'Blue & Gray' from BTS, specifically the first verse: 

 

Where's my angel?

The end of a tiring day

Someone come and save me, please

Is overshadowed by a sigh

I guess everyone's happy

Can you look at me? 'Cause I'm blue and gray

The tears in the mirror mean 

My colors hid in the smile, blue and gray

I think I went a little emotional, thanks for reading!

Post 3: my favourite movie

 Hello everyone!

I always find it difficult to choose my favourite things like food, songs, books, series or movies and this time was not the exception 😬 but I think that definitely one of my favourites movies is Akira.

Akira is a Sci-fi Japanese animation movie from 1988, it's 33 years old! Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, and based on his homonymus Manga. It last 2 horus and 4 minutes, although is made entirely by hand it has beautiful and really amazing fluent movements,  the level of detail is incredible!! It was made with 160.000 animation celluloids.

Set in a Post-apocalyptic reality in a city called Neo-Tokyo, the year is 2019, the story revolves around two friends: Tetsuo Shima and Shotaro Kaneda, orphaned teens who dedicate their time to roaming the streets with their motorcyle gangs but one day Tetsuo has an accident and is involved in an secret experiment of a military project that leads him to develop a HUGE psychic power.

In summary, it's about what happens when power falls into the "wrong hands", in this case the hands of a child resentful of society who has been violated all his life.
Although I think we can discuss how dangerous could be if that power was managed by the fascist government or the militar forces but I'm not going to delve into that 👀...

The first time I saw it was in the Summer of 2017, I was 17 years old and I remember the sadness I felt as the film progressed and how Tetsuo becomes a real monster, but it too made me reflect about how systematic violence leads people to desire absolute destruction of everything. 

It really blew my mind, I even wrote an essay about it in my last year in High school!! 😅

It's really a piece of art and I think to this point a cult film 😂 Have you seen it?